Major FIBA tournaments winning head coaches |
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World Tournament |
Continental Tournaments |
The list of FIBA EuroBasket-winning head coaches shows all of the head coaches that have won the FIBA EuroBasket, which is the main international competition for senior men's basketball national teams that is governed by FIBA Europe, the European zone within the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).
(2) | Number of titles |
† | Elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach |
* | Elected into the FIBA Hall of Fame |
† * | Member of both the FIBA Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. |
Number | Head Coach | National team(s) | First | Last |
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6 | Alexander Gomelsky | Soviet Union | 1963 | 1981 |
4 | Stepan Spandaryan | Soviet Union | 1951 | 1961 |
Sergio Scariolo | Spain | 2009 | 2022 | |
3 | / Dušan Ivković | Yugoslavia (2), FR Yugoslavia | 1989 | 1995 |
2 | Mirko Novosel | Yugoslavia | 1973 | 1975 |
Svetislav Pešić | Germany, FR Yugoslavia | 1993 | 2001 |
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